As the Sponsorship Director for Campaign’s live events portfolio, you will lead the commercial expansion of all Awards and Conferences including our award winning Campaign Underground event, Media 360, Digital Media Strategies, plus our 7 brand led award schemes.

You will also have shared strategic responsibility for these events, working to ensure that they are on brand, and seen as direct extensions of the main Campaign brand.

You will be a brand representative at all relevant meetings concerning these events, working with our internal events teams, to ensure their commercial success and working to develop external client partnerships.

This role is strategically important to the future development of the brand, which has identified Live as one of our key growth opportunities over the next five years.

While there is no direct people-management within the role, you will work closely with the Campaign commercial team to maximise revenue and growth and be expected to grow contribution from the core commercial team to these revenue lines.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and implement commercial strategies according to company goals and objectives aiming to accelerate growth within our live portfolio

Conduct market research and analysis to create detailed business plans on commercial opportunities (expansion, business development etc.)

Input into the building of content for conference programmes

Understand the requirements of existing customers to ensure their needs are being met

Act to acquire new customers and manage client relationships (new and existing)

Be a brand ambassador for all internal meetings concerning Campaign’s events

Assist in setting financial targets and budget development and monitoring

Your business generation will be through excellent relationship management as well as strong business acumen. Managing your own client base you will carve new relationships as well as build on existing ones.